Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Bennington, NE · Douglas County. Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 37 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 37
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Nebraska average.
- Top 31%
- national personnel size
- +106%
- vs. Nebraska average
- 2
- stations
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Bennington, NE (Douglas County), with 2 stations and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,936 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,936 of 22,440
- NE personnel rank #48 of 258
- 5.41 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Douglas County
Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
37 Top 31% higher than 69% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 01001 · Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NE 37 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 37
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,936
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Guilderland
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Guilderland Fire Department, NY (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NE department.
- Bennington Volunt… (this dept) 37
- High Grace Chapel Volu…, NC 37
- Near Guilderland, NY 37
- Near Los Ranchos DE Al…, NM 37
- Near Upper Hominy Volu…, NC 37
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bennington, NE
- County
- Douglas County
- FDID
- 01001
Staffing vs the Nebraska average
How Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nebraska. In-state it ranks #48 of 258 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,936 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 26
- NE departments
- 511
County roster fringe
Bennington Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 4.0% of Douglas County roster mass
The county lists 10 departments totaling 929 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 37 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Guilderland Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 37 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NE department.